416 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor H. R. Moody, of tne College of the City of New York, 

 Professor Samuel A. Tucker, of Columbia University, and Dr. E. R. 

 Weidlein, associate director of the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, 

 are members of the consulting staff of the chemicals and explosives 

 section, War Industries Board, Council of National Defense. Ac- 

 cording to the Official Bulletin, the consulting staff has jurisdiction over 

 questions involving inorganic chemicals, electrolysis, electrometallurgy, 

 ceramics and refractories, organic compounds, and dyestuffs. 



Professor Arthur A. Noyes, of the Masschusetts Institute of 

 Technology, has been in Washington since May as chairman of the com- 

 mittee on nitrate investigations of the National Research Council, 

 advisory to the Nitrate Division, Ordnance Department. The other 

 members of the committee are Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred H. White, 

 formerly prof essor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, 

 and Dr. John Johnston, executive secretary of the National Research 

 Council. 



Professor Miles S. Sherrill, of the department of physical chem- 

 istry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in Washington for the 

 summer, and is engaged in work for the Nitrate Division of the Ord- 

 nance Department of the Army. 



Mr. J. B. TuTTLE resigned from the Bureau of Standards on April 

 15, 1918, and is with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, 

 Ohio. 



Captain F. E. Wright has been detailed as Army representative in 

 the section of optical glass and instruments of the War Industries Board, 

 Council of National Defense. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: 



Mr. Albert Victor Bleininger, Bureau of Standards, 40th and 

 Butler Streets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Dr. William Wallace Campbell, Lick Observatory, University of 

 California, Mt. Hamilton, California. 



Dr. Charles Thom, Microbiological Laboratory, Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



